Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-08
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN
OPENED BY GENERAL POWELL IN A RING
ING SPEECH.
An Able Address 10 ths Cincinnati Democracy
Roraka's Folly Denounced in Singing
Terms The Records Of ,hs Two
Parties in Ohio COMPARED.

HAMILTON, O., September THE
opening meeting of the State campaign Of
the Democratic party, was held here this
evening II was very large and enthu-
siastic meeting The first speech was
made by Hon. Thomas E. Powell, candi-
date for Governor. He had an enthusi.
astic reception.
Mr.. Powell devoted nearly one-third of
his time to Gov. Foraker and his admins
tration. Speaking Of what was demanded
Of Governor Of Ohio, the third State in
the Union, he said:
Foraker's attack upon President Olese.
land in his speech of acceptance was un.
worthy one aspiring to such high Office
and for it he had received condemnation
at the hands Of private persons and from
the public throughout the country. He
claimed also that Gov. Foraker had pub
licly insulted the 400, 900 Democratic vot-
ers of Ohio by referring to them in his
speech as the ''rebel brigade" and as ''Con-
federates" and "dirty Democrats. He
classed this method as Of the character Of
the Governor's charge on former occasion
that the Democratic management OF the
penitentiary had been making canes from
human skips-negross and Irishmen.
This charge, he said, was based solely on
the statement Of some inmates OF the in
sane ward Of the penitentiary.
Speaking of the matter of the rebel fags,
he said the Governor by his conduct at the
soldiers reunions, and especially the one
at Wheeling, had
DIsGUsTED THE BEST MEN
in his own party, and they had called .
halt Oh him. This had gone to such an
extent that the Executive Committee had
ssued second edition of his speeches.
Unlike the tariff, they had both been re-
vised.
Going back to his first topic, he said the
people wanted Governor who would give
less attention to the war that ended twenty
years ago, and more to the peaceful prob
lens of the present and future. The nd
ministration of Foraker was compared
with the Democratic administrations Of
the State, and figures were presented to
prove that the present State ad-
ministratiOn had been more expensive
than any of the Democratic administra.
tions we have ever had in the State.
The question of tariff reform was dis
discussed at some length and occupied
about One-third Of the address. He fav-
ored a thorough revision and an honest
reform of the present system, and said
that the tariff should be 80 reduced that
no
MORE RESERVE SHOULD BE RAISED
than the hegovernment needed. He advocated
keeping the taxes upon whisky, tobacco,
and articles Of luxury-and making food,
clothing and articles of necessity
and general consumption cheaper.
He gave some attention to
Foraker's claims of the blessings Of pro-
hibition as given in his article in the Forum
and made considerable ridicule of several
statements in that article.
He next gave a summary of what had
been done by the national administration,
such as recovering the lands which had
been granted to railroad corporations by
the Republican party and stated that the
Democratic party had not granted single
acre of the public domain to railroad cor.
porations, and he'd not extended
or revived single grant. He also gave
the facts upon which he based his claim
that Cleveland's Administration had done
more for the soldiers and their dependant
relatives than any Republican administers
tion. He closed his speech with tribute
to President Cleveland and his work, and
claimed that the party which had done 80
well with national affairs was the party TO
be trusted with the administration Of our
own State affairs.